[jaunty] gnome-panel does not start anymore

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1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
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Thanks!

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Thank you,

Richard Seguin

What exactly is missing?

1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
sebastian@desktop:~$ gnome-panel
(or just log into gnome as gnome-panel is started automatically then, but then you don't have the debug output)

2. the behavior you expected, and
I expected it to start of course ;)

3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Well it didn't start, as the title says - I also gave all debug info i could gather.

Maybe I should have mentioned that this was a package upgrade that broke it.

I can confirm this. Reverting to

1:2.25.3-oubuntu1

returned gnome-panel to the expected operation.

The separators are the problem, remove every separator from "gconf-editor /apps/panel/general/object_id_list" and it works again

Upstream patch can be found here:

http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-panel/trunk/gnome-panel/applet.c?view=patch&r1=11463&r2=11462&pathrev=11463

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:2.25.5-0ubuntu2

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gnome-panel (1:2.25.5-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/91_upstream_fix_crasher.patch:
    - upstream change to fix a crash when loading some configurations
      (lp: #319399)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:02:16 +0100

Excellent work! Thanks for the quick fix Sebastian et. al.!